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Accelerating student achievement: a resource for schools

Published: 31 May 2013

This resource can be used with the School Evaluation Indicators. It brings together findings from ERO’s recent national reports to outline what works to accelerate progress for Māori students at-risk of underachieving in primary schools. We share approaches schools have taken where progress was accelerated and schools were able to extend their practices to help more students succeed. Innovative schools focus on inequity within their student population, resulting in improved outcomes for Māori students.

Audience:: Education; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Achievement; Resources; Māori student achievement; Inquiry

Raising achievement in secondary schools

Published: 30 Jun 2014

This report documents the findings of ERO’s 2013 evaluation of how well 40 secondary schools analysed and responded to their NCEA data.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Raising achievement; Secondary; Māori student achievement

Whole school buddy system

Published: 04 Sep 2017

At Otumoetai Intermediate, all teachers are engaged in differentiated professional learning and development. Those with similar goals are ‘buddied’ with another staff member.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Professional capability; Evaluation indicators; Leadership; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

A guide for parents and whānau on supporting science in primary school

Published: 12 Apr 2021

Learning science in the primary school years helps children become better problem solvers and critical thinkers. This short guide aims to help parents and whānau of children in primary school to understand why science matters for this age group, know what to expect for science teaching and learning for their child, and think about how they can support their child’s science learning journey.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Science; Schools; Guides for parents

Promoting Success for Māori Students Schools’ Progress

Published: 10 May 2010

This 2010 report evaluates how schools have promoted success for Māori students since ERO’s previous national report in 2006. The success of Māori students at school is a matter of national interest and priority. ERO has published five national evaluation reports on this topic since 2001. These have identified system-wide issues and recommended steps to be taken by schools and by the Ministry of Education to promote success for Māori in education.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Students; Māori student achievement

Accelerating the Progress of Priority Learners in Primary Schools

Published: 31 May 2013

This national report presents the findings of ERO’s recent evaluation about the extent to which primary schools were using effective strategies to improve outcomes for priority groups of learners. In this report ‘priority learners’ refers to Māori, Pacific, special needs, and students from low income families, who are not achieving at or above National Standards.

Audience:: Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Priority learners; Māori; Pacific; Special education; Low socio-economic communities; Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS); The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)

Te Tāmata Huaroa: Te Reo Māori in English-medium Schooling

Published: 18 Jun 2020

This report gives a snapshot of the current provision of te reo Māori teaching and learning in a representative sample of English-medium primary and secondary schools. The education sector is seen as an important lever in the Government’s Maihi Karauna strategy for language revitalisation.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Te reo Māori; English-medium; Language; Māori; Bilingual; Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori; Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

School trustees booklet: helping you ask the right questions

Published: 14 Feb 2017

ERO has written this booklet for boards of trustees. It is one of many tools available to help you in your role as a trustee. It focuses on student achievement and wellbeing, and the role the board plays in these two areas. The booklet includes questions and information that will guide you in your discussions with school leaders and as a trustee.

Audience:: Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Board of Trustees; Achievement; Wellbeing; Evaluation; Guides for parents

Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity in NZ Schools and Early Learning Services

Published: 05 Oct 2010

In late 2015, the Cabinet Social Policy Committee asked ERO to assess ‘the current status of food, nutrition and physical activity in schools and early childhood services’ and to report on Health Promoting Schools that were included in the sample. We visited 202 early learning services, 46 primary schools and 29 secondary schools in the first half of 2016.

We asked: How well does the service/school promote positive attitudes to physical activity, and food and nutrition to benefit children?

Audience:: Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Students; Māori student achievement

Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity in NZ Schools and Early Learning Services: Key findings report

Published: 11 Apr 2017

This document is a separate report from the effective practice report, Food, nutrition and physical activity in New Zealand schools and early learning services intended to provide an overview of ERO's findings.

Audience:: Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Students; Māori student achievement

Te Muka Here Tangata – The strand that binds people

Published: 06 May 2021

This case study explores the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 events on Māori learners in English-medium schools, and the response of leaders, schools and communities in the Bay of Plenty and East Coast regions.

Audience:: Academics; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Bicultural curriculum; Bilingual; East Coast region; English-medium; Cultural diversity; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Schools; School community; Te reo Māori; Whānau; Wellbeing; Māori immersion; Māori; Manaakitanga; Inclusive practices; Inclusion; COVID-19; Principals' performance; School leaders; Teachers | Kaiako; Whanaungatanga

A guide to learning in a Covid-19 world - Supporting parents into 2021

Published: 19 Jan 2021

This short guide is for parents of children in early childhood education, and of school-aged children. It covers that we learnt from talking to schools and early childhood education services in 2020 about the impact of Covid-19. It also sets out some recommendations for how parents can continue to support their child’s learning this year.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Parents; Guides for parents

Te Kahu Whakahaumaru: Māori continue to show resilience across Māori-medium education

Published: 10 Dec 2020

In Aotearoa, Māori-medium education experienced significant disruption when the outbreak of Covid-19 forced kura to close their doors, and whānau and kaiako to adjust to home schooling and distance learning. Among the many challenges were access to technology and resources with Māori communities among the most affected.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Schools; Māori-medium; Teachers | Kaiako; Resilience; Te Pou Mataaho | Evaluation and Research Māori

Learning in a Covid-19 World: The Impact of Covid-19 on Early Childhood Education

Published: 19 Jan 2021

Early childhood education services had to quickly adapt to changing requirements and periods of uncertainty due to Covid-19 in 2020. ERO undertook work to understand how this affected early childhood education services. This report presents our findings on how Covid-19 impacted children, whānau and services, how services responded and what they learnt, and the challenges that services expect they might face in future alert level changes.

Audience:: Early learning; Education; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: COVID-19; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre

Pacific Strategy 2019-2022

Published: 21 Mar 2019

Our Pacific strategy outlines our role in supporting the improvement of educational outcomes for Pacific learners in Aotearoa. This strategy also describes how we can support the strengthening of our Pacific regional neighbours’ education systems.

Audience:: Academics; Early learning; Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Basic page

Topics:: Pacific; Pacific Strategy; Strategy

Time to talanoa: ERO joins Pacific Education Ministers at CPEM 2023

Published: 20 Mar 2023

The Conference of Pacific Education Ministers (CPEM) brings together Education Ministers, agencies and experts from across the Pacific to share what we collectively know about achieving the best outcomes for learners.

Audience:: Education; Māori-medium; Parents; Schools

Content type:: News article

Topics:: Pacific; Māori

Early mathematics: a guide for improving teaching and learning

Published: 22 Mar 2016

This guide describes how children can be supported to become confident and capable mathematical learners in the early years.

Audience:: Early learning; Parents

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Early childhood curriculum; Early Childhood Education (ECE); Mathematics; Early mathematics

Te Kura Huanui: The treasures of successful pathways

Published: 08 Jul 2021

Te Kura Huanui: The treasures of successful pathways and supporting documentaries explore the Māori-medium education pathway, through a rich collection of interviews and research conducted in partnership with early founders, whānau, leaders, graduates, kaiako, kaimahi and kaumatua.

Audience:: Māori-medium

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Best practice; Community; Diversity; Equitable outcomes; Immersion; Inclusion; Identity; Kōhanga Reo; Kauapapa Māori; Kura; Knowledge building; Māori-medium; Mātauranga Māori; Māori student achievement; Māori parents and whanau; Māori learners; Māori immersion; Māori Education Evaluation; Manaakitanga; Māori; Literacy and numeracy; Methodology; Te Kōhanga Reo; Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust; Te reo Māori; Te Rūnanga Nui o ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa; Teachers | Kaiako; Teaching; Tikanga Māori; Te ao Māori; Wellbeing; Whānau; Whanaungatanga; Children's success

Māori succeeding as Māori

Published: 04 Sep 2017

A school principal talks about how he works with his school community to develop an environment where Māori learners are supported and can succeed as Māori.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Māori student achievement; Māori; Leadership; Evaluation indicators; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Partnerships between home and community

Published: 04 Sep 2017

This school seeks every opportunity to connect with the groups within its multicultural community to support those groups to connect to one another as well as engage with the school and their children’s learning.

Audience:: Education; Parents; Schools

Content type:: Research

Topics:: Improvement; Relationships; Evaluation indicators; Leadership; Video; Improvement in Action Te Ahu Whakamua